This year was another full of discoveries in human evolution that help us understand our origins and our closest evolutionary cousins, both living and extinct. With stories of our living ape relatives ...

A breakthrough study has identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to increased prostate cancer in African men. The ...

This interbreeding between species left an indelible mark that remains present in our current DNA. Between 50,500 and ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

The promise all good fountain pens deliver—be they expensive or affordable—is that they make your handwriting better than you ...

During the Ice Age, massive woolly mammoths, cave bears, and dire wolves roamed icy landscapes. Saber-toothed cats hunted ...

What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

Researchers believe marine fossils were deliberately collected by Neanderthals, despite holding no practical value.